811 Arts Quotes for You to Enjoy

In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself. Jacques-Louis David

Important Way More Idea Rendered Itself Than Arts Which Manner Much Expressed

Bruce Lee loved all different styles of martial arts. He believed that you shouldn't limit yourself to one style, because martial arts is just another form of human expression. Jake Shimabukuro

Every year in Edinburgh, I end up waiting behind the curtain about to go on stage, and I have a moment of thinking, 'No one's told me what to do with this show. I've done exactly what I wanted. This is the biggest arts festival in the world, and all these people have shown up. Aren't I lucky?' It really is amazing. James Acaster

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The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet. James Earl Jones

Health Important Nation Important Ingredient Always Gotten Been Arts Ingredient

Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as easily be a quality of metrical as of free verse. James Fenton

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I didn't know what my passion was until I discovered the dramatic arts in junior high and high school and I realized, 'Oh, I like this. This is something I feel like I'm good at.' But, the idea of moving to Hollywood and becoming an actor was really unrealistic. James Marsden

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The unhappy irony is that, while 'Glee' is hitting the heights, school arts funding is being slashed across the country due to the steep recession and declining tax revenues. James Wolcott

School Unhappy Country Heights Recession Steep Glee Revenues Due Irony Hitting Arts Being Tax While Tax Revenues Declining Across Funding

No offense to Bushwick, where all my neighbors greeted me on the street and there is a growing arts community and a curious beauty to its industrial zone, but Bushwick is no Williamsburg, even if the real estate agents would have you believe it is. Jami Attenberg

When 'The Awakening' was published it was considered so scandalous it was banned in the author's home-town library, and she herself was barred from the Fine Arts Club in the same city. What the novel has to offer, among other things, is honesty. Jane Smiley

Film is the most liberal of arts and, at the same time, it can be a very conservative art. Money that is involved in filmmaking is distributed mostly to men, thus creating a celluloid ceiling for women. Jasmila Zbanic

I love Tony Jaa. He's one of the best and most capable martial arts stuntmen in the world. Jason Statham

Love Best World Martial Martial Arts He Most Arts Capable Tony

When Basquiat was hanging out with Madonna and Fab Five Freddy, and all those worlds were colliding, people have to realize hip-hop and the arts were like this 'cause we both were outcasts: we wasn't allowed inside the galleries or inside Yankee Stadium. We were writing in the street and making music. Jay-Z

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Colleges and classrooms should be havens of tranquility, places where thoughtful discussions occur, where students work together with their teachers to acquire knowledge of the arts and sciences. Jay Parini

Work Knowledge Together Thoughtful Colleges Haven Classrooms Students Sciences Occur Discussions Tranquility Arts Where Places Acquire Work Together Should Teachers

I wanted to work in the arts. My dream come true would be to be an architectural historian and work with the royal palaces and all the fabulous art collections. But I'm not committed enough. Jaye Davidson

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One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes. Jean Tinguely

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I never really felt like I quite fit in. Other boys were playing sports and into hunting and stereotypically masculine activities. I was always more attracted to the arts. I loved to dance, I loved to sing, and I always knew I would be an actor. I don't really know why. Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

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Thanks to budget shortfalls and format wars, our traditional media, literature, and arts are perishing faster than ever before. Nothing conceived by the human mind, except Heaven and nuclear winter, is eternal. Jeffrey Zeldman

Winter Mind Before Thanks Nothing Faster Our Except Budget Conceived Traditional Than Heaven Human Arts Format Literature Eternal Human Mind Wars Media Ever Nuclear

People have had certain assumptions in the past about Conservative governments, partly because of some of the things that happened in the 1980s, and partly because of the tone of some of the debate in the 1980s that appeared to say public spending on the arts was something you might want to progressively reduce. Jeremy Hunt

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Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive. Jesse Jackson

Music Inclusive Expansive Arts Should

Naturally, it was easier for me to envision becoming a novelist than it is for most people. I had two great in-house teachers; I had parents who considered a career in the arts a real possibility rather than a dreamy arrow shot into the sky. Jesse Kellerman

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I went to school for culinary arts. I love to cook. That's a talent not a lot of people know about. Jessie Usher

Love People School About Talent Know Culinary Lot Arts Cook

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